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This photo shows the cover of a booklet with Victoria Cross in the center on a background of white silk and the letter V C in red at the bottom.

Honouring the brave: Canada’s Victoria Cross recipients

A female museum guide supervises two young students, who are reaching out to stroke a large, white rabbit on the table in front of them.

New museum program brings the farm right into the classroom

NAV CANADA employees work on computers at an area control centre in Winnipeg

Check the locks: How to stay cyber safe

A view of the solid-looking, wooden steering wheel, inside the pilot house from the SS Prince Edward Island.

Canada’s marine transportation artifacts will be better preserved in the Collections Conservation Centre

Two tall grain elevators stand alongside a railway track, with a beautiful sunset in the background.

Many voices: Oral histories of Canada’s grain elevators

A woman's outstretched hand holds a ballot over a ballot box.

Cast your vote to make the Ingenium Channel Canada’s favourite science blog!

A young girl wearing headphones closes her eyes as she rests on a red cushion.

Museum of Surrey seeks to incorporate sensory-friendly spaces

A teenaged boy stands in front of a display of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous artwork at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Behind the scenes at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

Game screenshot of StarBlox Inc.

Sneak Peek: StarBlox Inc. for the Nintendo Switch

Intern Charlotte Clemens, standing outside the museum in front of the museum sign.

Diving into museum work: The life of a summer intern

Towers of a nitrogen fertilizer production plant stand against a blue, cloudy sky.

From plant to pantry: Tracking pollution in Canada's food production

View of the CP 1201 locomotive in a concrete storage facility.

Railway enthusiasts invited to watch Canadian artifacts take to the tracks

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An drawing of students looking through a telescope and discussing different names for an exoplanet

Canada’s Name the Exoplanet Contest!

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Scientists have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, aka exoplanets. Most of those planets have boring names consisting of letters and numbers that keep track of the star catalogue in which they are listed. Take, for example, planet HD 136418b . The "HD" refers to the Henry Draper Catalogue, the "136418" means the planet orbits the 136,418th star in the catalogue, and the "b" refers to it being the first planet discovered around that star (they don't use "a" because

A cartoon image of an astronaut standing on the surface of Enceladus looking at a water geyser.

Sports & Gaming

Astronaut fantasies are part of my job description

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

As the Science Advisor for the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, I get to work on some really fun projects. Recently, I helped out with the science behind a space-themed video game we just released on the Nintendo Switch called StarBlox Inc (you didn’t know that museums made video games? We do! We’re cool like that...check out our games and apps ).

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Voices — Documentary Film Series

One of the earliest examples of the Let L-13 Blaník glider. Anon., “Flying newsreels,” Flying, November 1959, 48.

That’s me on the left, or, How would you feel about a few words on the flying Cadillac of Czechoslovakia, the Let L-13 Blaník glider?

Rénald Fortier

With your permission, my reading friend, I would like to begin our expedition to the wonderful world of aviation and space with a question. Do the first words of the title of this week’s article ring a bell? No? That’s no big deal. Let me enlighten you by mentioning a series of Canadian novels which appeared between 1962 and 2005. Known as the Bandy Papers , these books related / relate the adventures and misadventures of Ontario’s Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy. A gifted if accident prone fighter

The first Jurca MJ-7 Gnatsum, Edmonton, Alberta. Anon. “Aeronews.” Air Progress, November 1969, 21.

You say Mustang, I say Gnatsum: Christopher Barnard Falconar and another giant leap for homebuilding in Canada

Rénald Fortier

Hi, hello. How are you on this November day? Having stumbled (Ouch. Sorry.) on the photograph above while I was exploring the November 1969 issue of the American magazine Air Progress , I had the idea to write (talk?) to you about a very important personality in the Canadian homebuilder / amateur aircraft making community who lived in Edmonton, Alberta. An avid model maker during his youth, Christopher Barnard “Chris” Falconar was born in 1927. He began his career in aeronautics towards the end

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A composite image made up of three pictures

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — November edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the November edition, they took a closer

Proudly at the wheel of his Austin Pathfinder pedal car, Ian Cooks is asking a bus driver for street information, Taunton, England. Anon., “La puce de la route.” Photo-Journal, 17 November 1949, 9.

Austin is today’s best long term investment because you get so much more in an Austin: The saga of the Pathfinder and J40 pedal cars

Rénald Fortier

Good morning to you, my reading friend, and no, the name of the bipedal creatures native to the icy planet Hoth that were used by the rebel alliance in the 1983 movie Return of the Jedi was not taunton. It was tauntaun. To lead you back to the path that leads to enlightenment and joy, yours truly would like to quote the caption which accompanied the photograph found in the 17 November 1949 issue of the Montréal, Québec, weekly Photo-Journal :

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A black-and-white image of William George Barker in a German aircraft, which was allegedly captured in one of his last battles. Circa 1919

Honouring the brave: William George Barker was Canada’s most decorated serviceman

Unseen and unrecognized: Women’s key role in the history of computer memories

Ghazaleh Jerban

Guest writer, Ingenium-University of Ottawa Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology.

A black-and-white image of Alan Arnett McLeod, sitting in his military uniform.

Honouring the brave: Alan Arnett McLeod was Canada’s youngest Victoria Cross recipient

This photo shows the cover of a booklet with Victoria Cross in the center on a background of white silk and the letter V C in red at the bottom.

Honouring the brave: Canada’s Victoria Cross recipients

A black-and-white image of William Avery Bishop in the cockpit of a Nieuport aircraft, handling a machine gun.

Honouring the brave: William Avery “Billy” Bishop was a top Canadian aviator

A black-and-white image of Frankenstein

Social Science & Culture

The science behind Hollywood’s movie monsters

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Horror movies have enjoyed widespread popularity since Frankenstein lured terrified audiences to the screen back in 1931. But how much science is really behind the iconic monsters from Hollywood? To read about the role science plays in making horror films more terrifying, check out this feature article from Smithsonian.com .

Virtual tour: Explore a Dairy Farm

Virtual tour: Explore a Dairy Farm

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Looking for a great educational tool to teach students about dairy farming and where food comes from? The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app.

A female museum guide supervises two young students, who are reaching out to stroke a large, white rabbit on the table in front of them.

New museum program brings the farm right into the classroom

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

It’s hard to tune out a science lesson when there’s a chicken on your desk. Thanks to a new mobile education program from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, teachers in the Ottawa area can bring a bit of farm life — and a lot of excitement — right into the classroom.